Stories
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Obesity and Britain’s boys
Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.
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The birth of Britain's National Health Service
Starkly unequal access to healthcare gave rise to Nye Bevan’s creation of a truly national health service.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume III. Minutes of evidence (49th to 71st days) being mainly the evidence of critics of the Poor Law and of witnesses representing Poor Law and charitable associations. With Appendix.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XXVIII. Reports of visits to Poor Law and charitable institutions and to meeting of local authorities in the United Kingdom.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Index to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on Poor Law Relief.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on Poor Law Relief.Date: 1888- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XIII. Special reports from the dioceses in England and Wales as to the extent and intensity of poverty and the administration of charitable and Poor Law relief.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1909- Books
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Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress. : Appendix Volume XVIII. Report on the condition of the children who are in receipt of the various forms of Poor Law Relief in England and Wales, / by Miss Ethel M.N. Williams, ..., assisted by Miss Mary Longman and Miss Marion Phillips.
Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress.Date: 1910